The single cover of their self-titled song.
Daddy DJ is a French duo that makes Trance, and Eurodance music and are known for a song of the same name. They have couple music videos which are all featuring their mascot, Kross, a 13 year old boy who outsmarts his father in becoming a more famous DJ than him.Their self-titled song had charted several countries, as well as other singles they had such as "The Girl in Red" and "Over You" somewhat. They also had 3 animated music videos to go along with their music likewise.
Charly Merkiled left the project shortly after the released of Let Your Body Talk, and the band went on a hiatus until coming back in 2012.
Daddy DJ's cartoon side provides examples of the following tropes:
- Adults Are Useless: Except for the agent signing the record deal for him.
- Already Met Everyone: Kross keeps meeting The Girl in Red with different color schemes and appearances. Making the continuity rather confusing.
- Animated Music Video: All of the band's music videos are of the character in a hand-drawn animated fashion and is animated like Hanna-Barbera. The music video for, "Over You" has 3D animation instead however.
- Art Shift: The first two music videos are animated like Hanna-Barbera, but when "Over You" came, it changed into 3D animation.
- Alternate Continuity: Kross keeps meeting the Girl in Red, or an equivalent of her in each of the three music videos. As well as Kross being changed to a 3D character instead of a 2D one in the third music video.
- Black Comedy: Some man being punched by the doormen for looking normal when trying to enter the club.
- Bumbling Dad: Kross's dad doesn't pay much attention to him.
- Call-Back
- Kross whistling the tune of "Daddy DJ" while working at first in the music video for "The Girl in Red", which is essentially the same audio file being used with reverb added on top of it.
- Paintings of everyone appear in the music video for "Over You" which are actually just single frames of animation from the 2 previous music videos.
- Cigar Chomper: The agent that signs him with a record deal in the first music video.
- Concert Episode: Daddy DJ themselves preforming at the end and Kross signing them with a record deal after accepting them.
- Cool Plane: Kross's helicopter that he uses to go places.
- Construction Is Awesome: The building that Kross lives in after he becomes famous and signs the deal with the agent.
- Continuity Snarl: Everything keeps resetting, and Kross keeps acting different throughout the music videos. Making them all rather confusing for what is actually the case for all the characters.
- Damsel in Distress: Kross imagines The Girl in Red as one for his two daydream sequences in the music video of the same name.
- Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: Kross's dad, as well as Kross himself whistling the tune of "Daddy DJ".
- Depending on the Writer: It seems there is a new scenario and story for Kross in each music video he is featured in. As well as all the other characters as well.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Kross supposedly preforming really well at the club before being signed a record deal with the agent that sees him in the club.
- Fantasy Sequence: Kross daydreaming about The Girl in Red being a damsel in distress from her boyfriend as the bad guy, and him saving her from him.
- Fantastic Fireworks: At the end of "The Girl in Red" music video, fireworks are shown in the background going off as Kross and the said-character are flying away happily.
- Free-Range Children: Kross living on his own at the end in a giant building that's dedicated to the band he likes, and after the events of the music video for "Daddy DJ".
- Hopeless Auditionees: The auditions in the music video for, "Over You".
- Innocent Aliens: Aliens are shown being happy living with humans.
- "I Want" Song: The self-titled song.
- Kid-Appeal Character: Kross, as well as his friend Bob. This was all intentional during the release of Let Your Body Talk.
- Kids Driving Cars: Kross has a helicopter that he flies for the remaining two music videos.
- Kids Versus Adults: Downplayed, it is technically implied that children and adults are treated equally in the universe this takes place in. Nobody appears to care at all about the ages of each other.
- Missing Mom: The subject of Kross having a mother is not even explored at all.
- Riding into the Sunset: Downplayed, The Girl in Red and Kross fly away in his helicopter towards the moon at the end of the music video based on her with fireworks in the background as it ends.
- Roger Rabbit Effect: Downplayed, in the third music video for "Over You" Kross is now 3D, and flies his helicopter along with aleins following him to a live-action scene of auditions, with Daddy DJ themselves in the scene also, in order to him to judge auditions with some unknown woman with Daddy DJ winning at the end.
- Shout-Out: Kross dodges a giant rocket in the daydream cutscene of him as a cowboy saving the girl in red from a bandit, and he dodges it Neo in the The Matrix.
- Skyscraper City: Everything takes place in high-rise buildings with the ground very rarely being shown.
- Spaghetti Western: A scene from "The Girl in Red" music video, shows Kross imaging him being a cowboy saving the latter from her boyfriend dressed as a bandit. Considering this is a French production.
- Technology Uplift: There is teleporters in webcams, which Kross uses to sneak into the club in the music video for, "Daddy DJ".
- The Bus Came Back: Aliens made a return in a spaceship in the third music video, "Over You" and follow Kross to the audition.
- Those Two Guys: The aliens in the spaceship in "Over You".
- The Cameo: The actual Daddy DJ members appearing performing the song in the music video for, "Over You", and Kross signing a record deal with them.
- Too Important to Walk: Kross is always in his chair and is never seen getting out of it much. He even uses it as a seat for his helicopter when he flies it to go places.
- 2D Visuals, 3D Effects: Starting with, "The Girl in Red". Kross's helicopter is 3D, as well as the surrounding environment around him.
- Vine Swing: Kross's second daydream sequence about the Girl in Red being a Damsel in Distress with him being a jungle boy saving her from her boyfriend this time as a giant ape.
- Where the Hell Is Springfield?: It is unknown where it is all supposed to be set. Although it is shown in the "The Girl in Red" music video that there is a president, and the president is American, indicating this is possibly either taking place in Chicago or San Francisco, despite the band being from France.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The agent, his father, Kross's friend Bob, and The Girl in Red's egoistic boyfriend are never seen again after their respective appearances.
Daddy DJ in Real Life provide examples of the following tropes:
- Boy Band
- That Syncing Feeling: All of Daddy DJ's concerts are obviously lip-synced when you look closely at archive footage of them.
- The Bus Came Back: The band came back for a new album titled, "Folder" in 2012, but without Charly, the chief producer of all of the original older music they did.
- White Dude, Black Dude: David Le Roy, Jean-Christophe Belval are the two Caucasian guys from the group. But then there is Charly Merkiled, who is Black-Caribbean.
- White Male Lead: David Leroy is the main singer for most of the tracks, and is also depicted as the face of the group in real life.
